365 Days of Astronomy - Weekly Edition

Ep. 800: The Beginning & End of Everything - Part 1

Streamed live on Sep 7, 2026. Hosted by: Fraser Cain (@frasercain) and Dr. Pamela L. Gay (@CosmoQuest) This show is supported through people like you on Patreon.com/A

Ep. 799: Heavy Lift Rockets

Hosted by: Fraser Cain (@frasercain) and Dr. Pamela L. Gay (@CosmoQuest) Streamed live June  22, 2026. The Saturn 5 was a monster, capable of sending humans and a lan

Ep. 798: Our Summer Media List

Streamed live on Jun 15, 2026. Well, we’re just a couple of weeks away from summer hiatus and so it’s time to give you some homework. Here’s our list of stuff we’ve bee

Ep. 797: Summer in Space

Hosted by: Fraser Cain (@frasercain) and Dr. Pamela L. Gay (@CosmoQuest) Streamed live June 10, 2026. We’re about to take a much needed 2 month hiatus. But just becau

Ep. 796: Oceans & Organics on Mars

Hosted by: Fraser Cain (@frasercain) and Dr. Pamela L. Gay (@CosmoQuest) Streamed live on Jun 1, 2026. Mars is cold & dry today, but the evidence is growing that it u

Ep. 795: Expanse Science

Streamed live on May 10, 2026. This is the final episode of our series on sci-fi universes. And this week we will tackle “The Expanse”. Now we’ve got fusion drives, Pro

Ep. 794: Stargate Science

Hosted by: Fraser Cain (@frasercain) and Dr. Pamela L. Gay (@CosmoQuest) Streamed live on May 10, 2026. We continue our ad-hoc miniseries through sci-fi franchises. T

Ep. 793: Star Trek Science

Hosted by: Fraser Cain (@frasercain) and Dr. Pamela L. Gay (@CosmoQuest) Streamed live May 4, 2026. Today we continue our mini-series; evaluating the science of vario

Ep. 792: Star Wars Science

Hosted by: Fraser Cain (@frasercain) and Dr. Pamela L. Gay (@CosmoQuest) Streamed live April 29, 2026. May the fourth be with you! Isn’t that what people say on the i

Ep. 791: Chang'e Sample Return

Hosted by: Fraser Cain (@frasercain) and Dr. Pamela L. Gay (@CosmoQuest) Streamed live on Apr 20, 2026. Last week we talked about samples from other worlds delivered

Ep. 790: Meteorites From Other Worlds

Hosted by: Fraser Cain ( @frasercain ) and Dr. Pamela L. Gay ( @CosmoQuest ) Streamed live April 17, 2026. Even though humanity has returned samples from a fraction o

Ep. 789: What Happens When a Planet's Star Dies

Hosted by: Fraser Cain (@frasercain) and Dr. Pamela L. Gay (@CosmoQuest) Streamed live on Mar 30, 2026. A star like the Sun only lasts about 10 billion years and it b

Ep. 788: Life’s Molecules Form in Space

Hosted by: Fraser Cain ( @frasercain ) and Dr. Pamela L. Gay ( @CosmoQuest ) Streamed live on Mar 23, 2026. The theory of evolution how life takes on its wildly diffe

Ep. 787: Evolved Stars (They're not dead yet!)

Streamed live on Mar 16, 2026. Main sequence stars spend most of their time being… normal. Fusing hydrogen into helium in their cores. Producing radiation. But as their

Ep. 786: Wolf-Rayet Stars

Hosted by: Fraser Cain (@frasercain) and Dr. Pamela L. Gay (@CosmoQuest) Streamed live on Mar 9, 2026. You think the Sun is a terrifying ball of fire and fury? Wait u

Ep. 785: Magnetars

Hosted by: Fraser Cain (@frasercain ) and Dr. Pamela L. Gay (@CosmoQuest ) Streamed live March 6, 2026. Magnetars are a special type of neutron star with physics that

Ep. 784: Pulsar-Powered Science

Streamed live on Feb 16, 2026. Pulsars are dead stars and fascinating in their own right, but astronomers can use their predictable rotation for exploring the cosmos in

Ep. 783: Cataclysmic Variable Stars

Hosted by: Fraser Cain (@frasercain) and Dr. Pamela L. Gay (@CosmoQuest) Streamed live on Feb 16, 2026. There are many types of variable stars. Today we’re gonna talk

Ep. 782: Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients

Streamed live on Feb 13, 2026. Modern astronomy has found that the Universe can surprise us. Here’s one which astronomers have called Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transie

Ep. 781: Awakening Black Holes

Streamed live on Feb 2, 2026. One long standing mystery in astronomy were the quasars. Incomprehensible energy blasting out of a point-like source, billions of light ye